Yeah. I do not get the 18-years-old age gate. It's not like they're protecting anyone. AI is available so freely now anyone who wants it can get it.

Anthropic made the best models by hiring non-technical folks like philosophers to build the best training sets and evaluations. Now, it seems like their philosophers are telling people how they can and can't use their model.

Liability. OpenAI have had several court cases now I believe where children killed themselves after interacting with ChatGPT. Less liability if the user is an adult.

They won't even need to do that. With enough time and money, they can certainly figure out how to not trigger the ID verification system.

There's a lot of errors you can miss by coding by hand, even as a seasoned developer. Try taking Claude Code, point it at your repo, and ask it to find bugs. I bet it will.

Claude is actually a crazy good vuln researcher. If you use it that way, your code might just be more secure than written purely by hand.

Sure, just like drug-sniffing dogs. Whether they've actually found something or are just pleasing the operator is another story.